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Interact Commerce and CoVia Partner to Enable Private Web Sites on Interact.com
New Internet Service Increases Customer Interactions Through Collaborative Networks That Share, Track and Present Sales Information Online
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. & MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--Aug. 8, 2000--Interact Commerce Corporation (Nasdaq:IACT), the leading provider of interactive selling solutions, and CoVia(TM), the leading provider of private-label hosted Web applications, today announced the immediate availability of CoVia's SalesOnline application via Interact.com.Officially launched today, Interact.com is an online subscription service that delivers a host of powerful Web-based services into the applications and devices sales professionals use every day. Interact.com makes the Internet a vital sales tool by working how, where and when selling professionals work. SalesOnline is one of the strategic services that enable Interact.com to help subscribers grow their business and better manage their customer relationships.
CoVia's SalesOnline application allows sales and customer service professionals to create private, personalized Web sites, or one-to-one networks, to communicate with customers and prospects. Completely wizard driven, the private client site now takes less than five minutes to set up and allows users to personalize each site to an individual customer.
``CoVia provides our Interact.com customers with a powerful sales cycle accelerator,'' said Phil Myers, president of Interact Commerce's Interact.com business. ``Customer collaboration over the Web increases the number and quality of interactions individuals and organizations can have with their best prospects. By enabling an efficient transfer of key information -- marketing materials, presentations, proposals, pricing and contracts -- sales professionals can effectively interact more, sell more and grow their business faster.''
CoVia's technology has been specially customized to seamlessly integrate with Interact.com. From within their contact management application, Interact.com users can create a private client Web site for a customer or prospect. All interactions on the site are then automatically recorded in the account records for that customer or prospect. The Web site tracks user information allowing the selling professional to see who visited the private site, what documents were accessed and what follow-up is necessary. In addition, the sales professional can be notified via a wireless alert when a customer has accessed the site or completed activities such as submitting a Request for Proposal. These tracking capabilities help selling professionals close deals faster, be more responsive and refine their sales processes ensuring targeted, efficient sales interactions.
``We developed SalesOnline specifically for persistent, on line customer interactivity, so integrating our hosted Web application as a service on Interact.com is a natural fit,'' said Deidre Paknad, president and founder of CoVia. ``We were so impressed with the vision of Interact.com that we worked closely with the Interact Commerce Corporation team to integrate our application seamlessly into this new Web business. Considering the 3 million ACT! users alone, we are confident that our partnership with Interact Commerce will open new markets and speed the growth of our business.''
About Interact Commerce Corporation
Interact Commerce Corporation enables individuals and organizations worldwide to interact more, sell more and grow faster. The company's products include ACT!, the market-leading contact manager used by more than 3 million professionals, SalesLogix, the fastest growing customer relationship management platform used by more than 2700 companies, and the Interact.com business, the premier interactive selling network. Each of these solutions integrate all aspects of the selling process, from mobile sales professionals to support, marketing, accounting and eBusiness partners. Headquartered in Scottsdale, Ariz., Interact Commerce can be found on the World Wide Web at www.interactcommerce.com.
About CoVia
CoVia is the market leader in the private-label hosted Web application industry. CoVia provides a suite of applications that allow Global 1000 companies to vault their businesses onto the Internet by delivering new web-based services to their customers, as well as their customers' customers. The product suite consists of applications for employee portals, private web sites, interactive selling, customer relationship management, project collaboration, intranet solutions, and web site creation. CoVia's applications are deployed as web-based services by their customers including Adobe Systems, Interact Commerce Corporation (formerly SalesLogix), Intuit, SAP AG, American Airlines, Wells Fargo, E*Trade and First American Financial. For more information, please visit www.covia.com or call 650/428-1800.
This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results or outcomes to differ materially from those contemplated by the forward-looking statements. Important factors that may cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to: risks associated with recent acquisitions; our ability to implement new marketing strategies; market demand and acceptance; the impact of competitive products and services; risks associated with the timing and successful completion of technology and product development and commercialization; the effect of economic and business conditions; the ability to attract and retain technical and management personnel; changing relationships with customers, suppliers and strategic partners, including the company's indirect distribution channel; and other risks detailed in the company's annual report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 30, 2000. Interact Commerce undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
Note to Editors: The recommended way of writing CoVia is all one word, with an uppercase C and V, all other letters lowercase. CoVia is a trademark of CoVia Technologies Inc. SalesLogix is a registered trademark of Interact Commerce Corporation. Interact.com is a trademark of Interact Commerce Corporation. ACT! is a registered trademark under exclusive license to Interact Commerce Corporation by its owner, Symantec Corporation, in the U.S. and other countries. All other trademarks or registered marks are owned by their respective holders.
Editorial Contact:
Kristina Ford
Interact Commerce Corp.
480/444-1317
mail to:kford@interactcommerce.com
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